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Ce livre s’adresse aux hommes et aux femmes qui souhaitent faire partie de ceux qui sauront encore lire, et qui auront une mémoire, et la conscience du temps et des siècles. Que l’inexistence de Dieu s’impose à nous avec la force de l’évidence, que nous ne nous rendions plus, à l’instar de Brassens, à l’office dominical que quand il pleut, ou que nous ne puissions plus vivre sans Lui, force est de constater que l’illusion de l’athéisme des Lumières de congédier tout désir de transcendance s’est effondrée. Dans un monde scientiste qui a cru un moment que la science pourrait se substituer aux religions traditionnelles, et où les écoliers n’ont jamais ouvert la Bible, Judaïsme, christianisme, islam nous invite à nous pencher sur notre héritage spirituel, et à le comprendre. Autant pour le préserver comme un trésor de la pensée humaine que pour le conjurer dans ses manifestations les plus inquiétantes.
Religious anthropology --- Judaism --- Christianity --- Islam
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Met een bijzonder omvangrijke kennis van zaken en een indrukwekkende eruditie wijdt Valeer Neckebrouck de lezer van dit boek in in het domein van de godsdienstantropologie. De auteur beoogt het studieobject te beschrijven, hij bespreekt de grondleggers van de discipline en analyseert de voornaamste tendensen. In elk van de hoofdstukken wordt een uitstekend inzicht geboden in de grote thema's zoals de definitie van religie. De auteur toont aan de hand van talloze bronnen aan hoe diverse auteurs in de loop van de geschiedenis en in diverse taalgebieden een eigen antwoord hebben geformuleerd. Deze antwoorden worden op een eerlijke en heldere wijze voorgesteld en kritisch doorgelicht. Antropologie van de godsdienst biedt een schat aan bibliografische gegevens, referenties en citaten. Het is niet alleen een inleiding, maar ook een onmisbaar naslagwerk voor de lezer die met kennis van zaken wil deelnemen aan het kritische debat.
Anthropology of religion. --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology
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Religious anthropology --- Anthropology of religion --- Ethnology --- Homme (théologie)
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Anthropology of religion --- Anthropology of religion. --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology
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The Measure of All Things is the final volume in a trilogy about man as related to the genesis of the world, to metaphysics, and to the ontological vicissitudes of the human species. This book reviews the condition of man and his relationship with the forces of evolution, in both a biological and a spiritual sense. It is, therefore, an innovative excursion into the present day arguments between the evolutionist and creationist regarding the fate of man.
Creation --- Anthropology of religion. --- Myth --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Structural analysis.
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This book explores some of the less understood research considerations involved in studying religious populations with a missionary imperative. The essays encompass ethnographic fieldwork in Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, and other populations, addressing such topics as the fluidity of the anthropologist's own religious identity, objectivity versus subjectivity, the issue of reflexivity in ethnography, and the multi-positionality of the researcher.
Anthropology of religion --- Ethnology --- Religious anthropology --- Research. --- Fieldwork.
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"Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal, and Pseudoscience" provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought associated with the current rise of irrationalism, antiintellectualism, and emboldened religious fundamentalism and violence. Drawing upon H. Sidky's scientific anthropological background and ethnographic field research of supernatural and paranormal beliefs and practices in several cultures over three decades, the book answers several important questions: Why do humans have a proclivity for the supernatural and paranormal thinking? Why has humanity remained shackled to sets of ideas inherited from a violent past that have no basis in reality and which bestow an illusionary solace, promote bloodshed, endless cruelties and fervent hatreds, and have come at a high cost? Why have ancient superstitions been held as sacred, inviolate truths while other aspects of the archaic belief systems of which they were a part have long been discarded? Why have not humans outgrown religion and paranormal beliefs?
Anthropology of religion. --- Supernatural. --- Pseudoscience. --- Junk science --- Science --- Religion --- Miracles --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology
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Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.
Religion --- Anthropology of religion --- Brain --- 291.11 --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Philosophy --- Evolution --- Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur
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In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in the societies in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Asia, Africa and Western Europe, to explore each major domain of Islamic religious and social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in social anthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A New Anthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in the study of Islam and for those following new developments in the discipline of anthropology.
-Religious anthropology --- -Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Anthropology of religion --- Islamic sociology --- 297 --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Islamic sociology. --- Sociologie religieuse --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Islam --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Anthropology of religion - Islamic countries
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